GREED

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God!

I thank the Lord for each of you daily.  My prayer for you is that you are growing in the ministry and have been and will continue to be blessed and highly favored of the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

(Matthew 26:14-16), Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

 

Jesus had twelve disciples that journeyed with him throughout the land.  They observed Him pray for people and stood and watched miracles happen right before their very eyes.  There was not doubt in their mind that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah.  They knew that Jesus Christ was the Son of the Living God.  They were in the boat when a tremendous storm was about to overtake the boat and drown them.  They saw and heard Jesus speak to the sea, "peace be still".  "What kind of man is this that even the sea obeys Him, was the question they asked themselves.

 

Judas was among one of the twelve disciples that Jesus had with him on a daily basis.  So the question is, what would make a man that has seen so many miracles performed by Christ betray him?  One simple answer, GREED!  A spirit of greed will make you do things that you would have never thought was in your character.  For some reason, we always want more.  We tend to want more than we need and don't even think about giving to someone else in fear that we will not replace what we have given away.

 

The point that I am trying to get to today is that some of us have items stored away in our possession that we no longer want or need.  Instead of donating them to a charity, we just keep pushing the items back further in the closest.  You have grown two sizes and you are waiting to be able to fit those clothes again so you will not donate them to people that have nothing.  You have items stored in the basement and you won't give them away in fear that you will need them in five years.  Don't you understand that your blessings come from giving?  The bible says, "give and it shall be given unto you".  If you give away two suits, the Lord will give you four more. 

 

There are women in homeless or abuse shelters that have left their homes with nothing but the clothes on their backs.  Their children had to leave their toys and clothes.  When they are in the process of gaining their lives back, they need clothes to go on interviews and items to start living in a new apartment.  Just think about that for a moment.

 

Cain killed his brother Abel because of greed.  Abel didn't have as much, but he gave his best, therefore God accepted his gift and not Cain's.  God knew that Cain had more, but Cain didn't want to give his best.  Judas betrayed Jesus Christ for thirty pieces of silver that he didn't get a chance to spend.  He committed suicide because he couldn't live with what he had done.

 

My challenge for you today is to look around your house and take inventory. Be honest with yourself about the items that you know you don't or won't wear again. Take a look at pots and pans that you could donate. Also, never give anybody something that you wouldn't want for yourself. What good is it to give away something that is torn or broken, if you do that you have done nothing. When you give something away to be a blessing it should be your best.  You will never know when you will be at a point in your life when you are in need.  Amen!

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BREAKING SHACKLES

Hey, Ladies, I am so excited today.  God always gives me something special on my birthday.  A word from Him.  Maybe a song, but every year I get excited about God's gift to me.  Today my sister told me that she was proud of me and the women's ministry and book, I was tearful.  But today my book became available on Amazon.com.  That's my gift from God.  I was checking everyday, but today something just told me to check on today.  After all, it is my birthday.  So it is now available on Amazon.com.  Just go to the website and enter the name of the book and narrow it down to Christianity and it will be the second book on the page.  God is so good.  Happy Birthday to me.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes from all of you, I love you all, too.  God bless you.

CHRISTIAN STONES

Good morning, Mighty Woman of God!

Yep, that's exactly what each of you are, mighty woman.  No matter what's going on in your life right now, you are mighty, your weapons of warfare are mighty.  I speak blessings of joy upon each of you today.

(Psalms 54:10), Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me:

The message today may step on some toes.  I want you to keep an open mind as you read this one on today.  If you are convicted in your spirit, then the message is going to help you, not hurt you.  God wants you to be perfected in this area, if you are convicted by the Holy Spirit.  When I give a message like this one, I don't want to lose any of you, but on the other hand, I must give it the way that God gives it to me.  If it will make you fill any better, I had to have this message taught to me at a time that I thought I was all that.  So here we go!

What are Christian stones?  Christian stones are those soft subtle stones we throw at each other.  It's those phony smiles and hugs we give to each other in the church.  Christians have a way of hurting each other more than those outside of the church.  Christian stones is all that judging that we do to each other.  Then we have the nerve to say, "well, I don't mean no harm".  Yes you do.  You mean every bit of harm that you do, unless you are an infant that doesn't no any better.  Sometimes you say, "I didn't mean it like that".  Well, how did you mean to say it?

Christian stones is also that gossiping on the phone when you are supposed to be praying for someone on the prayer line.  It's that look we give to the First Lady because she has on a nice outfit.  A Christian stone is the envy you have in your heart because you didn't get the solo this week.  They are the wickedness you hide in your heart from others that think that you are a good person, they think you really mean it when you say, "God bless you, sister so and so.

Christians can be so judgmental towards people.  You judge people all the time.  You judge people in the church that may smell like alcohol in service.  You judge their circumstances when they confide in you.  You really can't be trusted because your heart isn't right.  Instead of praying for them, you turn your nose up like you have never been delivered from anything.  We judge people out of the church, thinking that we are more superior, because we went to church this morning.  Instead of praying for their souls you are throwing your subtle remarks like, "we are you going to get saved?"  Maybe your neighbor is not saved because she knows what type of a person that you really are on the inside.

We make excuses for ourselves when we sin, we justify our sins and our bad behavior.  The Lord knows what is in your heart no matter who you think you are hiding your inner most thoughts from.  Your inner most thoughts about a person is exactly where the Lord wants you to be perfected.  It's not enough to just say, "well the Lord knows my heart".  Well, He surely does and He knows that there is no good coming from it.  Let's try to fix your heart.  The next time that you have something negative to say about your spouse, friends, co-workers, brothers and sisters in Christ, think about what you are thinking in your heart.  It's those times when you don't say it out loud, but in your heart you are full of spite, rude, hatred, bitterness towards a person.  That is the innermost part that the Lord wants to work on.  Let God create in you a clean heart and a right spirit with you.  Amen!

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WHEN YOU STUMBLE

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God!

(Psalms 37:23-24), If the Lord delights in a man's way, he makes his steps firm; though he stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

I pray that you are all blessed and highly favored of the Lord Jesus Christ on today.  I hope that today's message will be a blessing to you as well.

When you stumble, why not say, "if you stumble?"  It would be unrealistic for me to assume that you would never stumble at some point in your spiritual journey.  You will stumble, that's a given.  We all stumble at some time, even the most elect in the churches.  We are imperfect people and therefore we are always doomed to that awful thing called "sin".

When I got baptized into the Body of Christ, I immediately thought that all my sins were washed away as soon as I came up from that pool.  The bible says, all things are new, the old has passed away and that I would be a new creature in Christ.  That is exactly what I was expecting, right then and there, right on the spot.  I thought that the moment I decided to give my life to Christ and follow Him that all my sins were gone.  I thought that as soon as I left the church, I would not smoke, drink or do any drugs. I also thought that all those things fell off in the pool.  Boy, was I sadly mistaken.  I actually had to work at keeping myself away from those things and any other sins that I would commit.

As soon as I left the church, I got in the car and had my cigarette.  Why didn't this stay in that pool of water?  Once I got home, I slipped into my comfortable clothes and smoke a joint.  Why didn't that stay in that pool of water.  I wasn't done yet, I had to have my drink, that didn't stay in the pool either, imagine that.  What did I get for being baptized?  What special powers do I have?  This is exactly what I was thinking.  I later came to realize that I did have power, but I did not know anything about the power of the Holy Spirit or how to use it.  So to me, all I got was really wet.

Well, I mind as well keep going to church.  It's not that far from the house and I did like the pastor and the choir.  I had a great time at church when it came to fellowship with the other saints.  I kept going back, I just kept going back.  Sunday after Sunday, then Bible study after Bible Study.  Eventually the power that I was expecting finally showed up.  I begin to get convicted of those things that I just wasn't ready to leave at the altar.  That power was the Holy Spirit and He wasn't giving up on me without a fight.  Thank God.

I stood at the altar and had hands laid upon me three times for drugs, twice for alcohol and I can't even count how many times for cigarettes.  Each time that I would get up off that purple carpet, I thought things just magically disappeared.  Nope, they don't.  I stumbled again and again, until finally I had to make up in my own mind that I was worth more.  I had to come to the realization that I was valuable to Christ.

Woman of God, don't you spend time worrying about how many times you stumble, as long as you don't fall.  If you are having trouble with a particular sin in your life, keep stepping and the Lord will take care of it.  You were not made to fall.  Don't let the enemy trick you into thinking that God is not going to kept helping you.  Yes, He will, if you keep going back.  Think about how many times you help your own children that you love.  God loves you more than that so just keep on stepping.  The bible says that a just man will fall seven times before he finally get it.  So you will stumble, its in your nature, but you have to make a conscience decision that you are going to be a fighter; not only will you be a fighter, but you will be a winner.  You will receive that crown in the end. I don't even want to entertain the thought that what if I just stayed down and gave up my birth right.  If you stay down you are giving up your birth right, your inheritance, your place in heaven.

The scripture clearly states that the Lord will make your step's firm, if He delights in you.  The Lord delights in you every time He sees you trying.  He will not let you fall, He will uphold you with His hands.  Praise God!  Amen!

YOUR DEATH SENTENCE

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God! 

I always call you mighty women of God because I want you to get in embedded in your spirit that is who you are and can become in Christ Jesus.  I speak blessings of peace and joy in your life and pray that you are all seeking the Lord more and more each day.

(Isaiah 55:7), Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

When you are out in the world doing your own thing and not considering how important your soul is to Christ; you are living a sinful life.  If you are attending church services every Sunday, that does not exclude you from getting the death sentence, you have to be born again.  It is true, that the church is full of sinners.  The bible states that, “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God’.  This only means that we are all sinners and will continue to sin because of our imperfections.  Now here’s the catch:  if you are a born again Christian, Jesus Christ has taken your sins upon His shoulders and carried them to the cross and now He intercedes on your behalf daily.  If you ask the Lord God to forgive you of all your sins, He is just and compassionate, and will pardon you.

If you are not a born again Christian than you will remain a sinner according to God the Father.  The difference between a sinner that repents daily and tries to live a life of righteousness and the sinner that does not even think about living righteous or asking for forgiveness is one has a “life sentence” and the other a “death sentence”.

You will be pardoned only if you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.  If you have not accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior and repented of your sins, then you have given yourself a “death sentence”.  Being in the Body of Christ should be the only time you should desire to hear the words, “life without the possibility of parole”.

Because of what happened in the Garden of Eden, we were all given the death sentence even before we were born.  Once Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, died for us, rose again and ascended into heaven we were all given the ability to receive a “life sentence.”  In order to receive that “life sentence” we must believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Anointed One and the only way to heaven.  The bible states that, once Jesus Christ was baptized, God the Fathers said, “Here is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased with, no one comes to the Father except through Him.  Though we were all born with the “death sentence”, we are all given the choice on whether we want to live or die.  The ability to choose a “life sentence” or “death sentence”.  Just think, when a prisoner is given the “death sentence”, he is sitting behind bars waiting for a pardon from the governor.  If the governor does not call to pardon him before his is scheduled to die, his sentence is carried out.  The prisoner doesn’t know if the warden will call or not, he is just hoping that he will hear that phone ring.

On the other side of the bars; though we are born with a “death sentence”, we are sitting behind bars with the choice of whether to accept or deny Jesus Christ as the Son of the Living God.  Those of us that do accept Christ and at least try to live a righteous life for Him, will receive a “life sentence” without the possibility of parole.  Like that prisoner, we don’t know when Jesus Christ is coming, but we do know that He is coming back for His Bride.  The scripture tells us that God is full of mercy and will abundantly pardon all your sins.  When it is time to be handed down our death for the penalty of sin, Jesus Christ intercedes on our behalf and pardons all our sins.  We are immediately set free from a life of darkness and despair.  It will be as if you were in prison and the warden pardon you, you get to go free.  You are no longer a felon because the warden has given you a pass.  You no longer belong to Satan because Jesus Christ has pardoned you.  AMEN!

BREAKING SHACKLES

Good morning, Mighty Woman of God!

First of all I like say thank you all for always taking the time to read my blogs. It was a commission from God for me to write them everyday. So since the beginning of the year, I have been writing them, then I found an avenue to get the messages out to you. I pray the each of you by name currently 246 of you. I thank God for that. Now, I need your help in getting my book out to the public. A lot of you have more avenues than I do, so I am asking that you help the ministry. Purchase a copy for yourself, if you have been blessed daily by messages. Purchase a copy for a friend as a blessing to them. This ministry will continue to reach as many women as I can. I know that there are so many God wants to reach. So, if you can be a blessing to the ministry, purchase a copy of the book. I am already editting the second one. I love you all and no matter what, I will always be praying for each of you. Thanks for your support. God bless you

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TOO MANY RULES

Good Morning, Mighty Woman of God! I pray that you are all blessed today.  I speak blessings of peace and love in your life.  God bless you, richly.

(Proverbs 22: 17-19), Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips.  So that your trust may be in the Lord, I teach you today, even you.

I have heard a lot of people say that they did not want to be a Christian because there are too many rules to follow.  They think of God as some big judge, writing down every single thing that they do wrong.  God is not taking notes, He already had the notes before you were even in existence.  In fact, if God were taking notes, He would have run out of paper just on me alone.  I have also heard that being a Christian is no fun.  Dr. Robeson states that a sinner may say, "I can't accept Christ because there is so much I have to give up." And it is true the sinner must give up certain things. The mistake the sinner makes, however, is the VALUE he places on those things he must relinquish. 

The most dangerous thing about this type of thinking is that if you are not a believer, or trying to live righteous you should be afraid of the consequences.  If you are thinking about how bad it is to be a Christian, you need to think about how dangerous it is not to be a Christian.

Being a Christian is not a religion, it is a way of life.  It simply means that you have decided to try to live a Christ-like life, a life that is pleasing to the Lord God.  God is not caught up in whether or not you are following all the rules, He is concerned about your soul.  The reason why Jesus Christ died and rose again was because you won’t be able to follow all the rules.

Being a Christian can be a lot of fun. Try settling in a church on a regularly basis and getting involved in some activities.  You will find out that you can have a lot of fun.  The music is not the same as in the club but you can get your praise on in church.  Try getting high on Jesus instead of drugs.  Becoming addicted to Jesus Christ leads to life, addicted to drugs leads to death.

When I first started reading the bible, I thought that God was mean.  I read about all the wars and punishments that were handed down to disobedient people; and I just knew that I would not make the cut.  I also felt very sorry for Job, because he did not do anything wrong, but was tested so harshly.  I also had trouble understanding all the “thees and thous” of the King James Version of the bible.  I went to the bookstore to find versions of the bible that I could understand and used them interchangeably.

When I decided to give my life to Jesus, I mean really go for it; I had to give up a lot of worldly things and my worldly ways. I was afraid that I would not make it without a blunt every day.  I just changed a little bit at a time.  If you just try a little bit at a time, you will make it. God is not some huge judge taking notes of all your shortcomings and every little mistake you make.

This is a spiritual journey and you will make mistakes, but God is so compassionate and merciful that He give us grace and mercy. He is not taking notes.  The devil has blinded the eyes of the people because he is the tempter of those that are seeking to gain wealth, fame or popularity.  Satan makes it very easy to obtain those things, but are you really willing to pay the cost?  It is his job to make you think that being a Christian is no fun.  Living an ungodly life may be fun for right now, but what are you going to do when Jesus Christ comes back for His bride?